Аннотация: A naivety, old-style-views, a concern for the Soviet people, cynicism and a habit of unanimity. The note.
A naivety, old-style-views, a concern for the Soviet people, cynicism and a habit of unanimity. The note.
"Boris, you're wrong!" Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev addressed these words not to the first person, but to the one who was deleted from the political top.
Even these words were remembered (to whom were they addressed? Perhaps to Boris Godunov?) - because there is nothing to remember.
The habits of these people were: to be silent, vote unanimously and, if possible, publicly criticize no one.
However, they were often good fathers and grandfathers. Using their intellectual potential they took care of the Soviet people.
And none of them had the courage, like Yeltsin, to have their own position, to go against the "majority".
If one of them at some point acquired his own (independent) position, then such a figure was faced with the habit of those around him - to be silent, vote unanimously and, if possible, not publicly criticize anyone.
"At the last XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party (July 1990) [Ligachev] was nominated for the post of Deputy General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, but lost the election to Vladimir Ivashko (for [support] - 776 votes, against - 3 thousand 642).
In July 1990, he was removed from all party posts and retired. " (https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/ligachev-egor-kuzmich)
In general, to remember about Yegor Kuzmich nothing particularly bad or especially good does not possible.
About Ivashko in general - if not for the biography of Ligachev - it is difficult to remember something.
Can Yegor Kuzmich be classified as a representative of the intelligentsia, technical intelligentsia?
... The upbringing in the village of Dubinkino, Tomsk province, study at the aviation institute and the party school, experience in the Komsomol, Soviet and party bodies ... None of the "engines of perestroika" had a vision, an understanding of where and how to move, to go.
In any case, during Ligachev's period in power, the intelligentsia existed, it was not destroyed, and Baklanov was able to organize the creation and launch of the Buran spacecraft.
May 8, 2021 08:55
Translation from Russian into English: May 8, 2021 09:32.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Наивность, старомодность, забота о советском народе, цинизм и привычка к единогласию. Заметка".